Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Valentine points out, fathers were often considerably freer and franker with their advice than they are today. He includes Benjamin Franklin's famed advice in 1745, listing the advantages of an elderly mistress: "The pleasure of corporal enjoyment with an old woman is at least equal and frequently superior, every knack being by practice capable of improvement." The Earl of Pembroke, anxious to see his son restore the family fortunes by settling into a good marriage instead of a military career, writes with Georgian bluntness: "I wish you would draw, not your sword, but your precious member...
...actually so ungallant as to give his mistress a fake cipher book. Undeniably, however, British Intelligence thereafter proved uncannily adept at forestalling Italian fleet movements, notably in the March 1941 sea battle off Greece's Cape Matapan, where the Royal Navy crippled Italy's numerically superior force...
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING, by Arnold Wesker, strafes, bombs and generally demolishes U and non-U types at an R.A.F. training base. The chief weapon is laughter, as Wesker admonishes the proles to stop kowtowing to their superiors as if they were superior...
...business schools abroad are designed to make competent executives out of every student, they are also becoming valuable training grounds for the wealthy sons of managers of family-owned businesses, who are certain, in the West European tradition, to take over the firm some day. The outstanding Escuela Superior de Administration y Direction de Empresas in Barcelona has recognized this fact of life by gearing three separate courses. One is for already established managers, one for relatives who are certain to become boss, and one for youths presumably destined by circumstance to rise no higher than departmental heads...
Truant Pet. The Two Old Maids is a story about two aging sisters who live in shabby seclusion with their ancient housekeeper and a beloved pet-a mettlesome monkey named Tombo, who, "though a eunuch, was, after all, the male of the house." One day the Mother Superior of the neighboring convent brings alarming news: Tombo has been seen stealing into the chapel at night where he ate the consecrated hosts, tried to say Mass, and even urinated on the altar. It is clear to one sister that he must die. The old maids consult two priests, the older...